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For runner Michele Sturt, this journey began with a lymph node
Every patient story is unique and, so in its own way, inspiring. Here, Michele Sturt – a runner, a nurse and a mother of four – shares her story of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and of her ultimate treatment at...
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A bone marrow transplant on an outpatient basis? For some patients, yes
Six, to date; more soon. Outpatient bone marrow transplants, that is. City of Hope is now providing bone marrow transplant services to some patients on an outpatient basis. Finding new ways to deliver...
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Bone marrow transplant may be answer to incurable, fatal blood disease
Even its name is daunting. Systemic mastocytosis is a fatal disease of the blood with no known cure. But a new study suggests a bone marrow transplant may be the answer for some patients. Systemic...
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Advice from Rob: What NOT to do when you’re depressed, with cancer
Rob Darakjian, a former leukemia patient, shares tips on how to overcome anxiety and depression while being treated for cancer. Rob Darakjian was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at just 19...
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Made in City of Hope: T cells – enlisting the immune system to beat cancer
The body’s immune system is usually adept at attacking outside invaders such as bacteria and viruses. But because cancer originates from the body’s own cells, the immune system can fail to see it as...
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A better treatment for graft-versus-host disease? It’s possible
Cancer patients face a daunting journey marked by challenges and uncertainties. For those undergoing bone marrow, or stem cell, transplantation, one complication poses a particular threat — chronic...
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BMT reunion celebrates lives saved on the frontiers of science
Updated: May 1 Each year, City of Hope patients given another chance at life gather to pose for a picture like this one. Going on its 39th year, the celebration of patients free of blood cancers thanks...
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Gut microorganisms could influence outcomes of bone marrow transplants
Marcel R.M. van den Brink will deliver the annual Karl G. Blume-Gerhard Schmidt Memorial Lecture, titled “Intestinal Microbiota and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.” Some of City of Hope’s...
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BMT patient Amanda Cooper, 9, has a ‘fun’ message for bone marrow donor
Updated: May 1 No parent ever wants to see their child hurting or sick in any way. Joanne Cooper’s daughter Amanda wasn’t sick, though. She seemed healthy. Vibrant. A straight-A student whose only...
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Bone marrow donor Lars Nijland: ‘No easier way to save somebody’s life’
Updated: May 1. For Lars Nijland, the reason to become a member of a bone marrow registry was simple. “I always thought there would be no easier way to save somebody’s life,” said the 24-year-old...
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Bone marrow donor Phil Ratcliff: Why wouldn’t you donate?
Updated: May 1, 2015 More than a decade after joining the bone marrow registry during a blood drive at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Phil Ratcliff received a call that he was a...
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Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion: What patients and donors have to say
On Friday, May 1, 2015, at the 39th annual Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion, two patients will meet the donors who saved them. The moments are deeply personal but also universal in their expressions of...
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9-year-old Amanda, a bone marrow transplant patient, meets her superhero
Superheroes are making plenty of headlines as the summer blockbuster season opens. At City of Hope, a 9-year-old girl wept as she hugged her own superhero: someone who had the superpower of healing her...
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Why an annual Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion? It inspires us
For almost four decades, blood cancer survivors who received bone marrow, or stem cell, transplants have returned to City of Hope to celebrate life, second chances and science. The first reunion, in...
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Lessons from my leukemia diagnosis and cord blood transplant – Alex Tung
Leukemia patient Alex Tung waited six months for a bone marrow match, but because of his Chinese heritage, the search proved more difficult than expected. Instead, he signed up for a clinical trial...
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